Catholic Christmas

.. To appear before the household and children in the clothes of Santa Claus.Christmas in Sweden begins on Christmas Eve on December 24. The fathers of Swedish families disappear for a while in distant rooms, then appear before the household and children in the robes of Santa Claus and with a bag full of gifts.

This method of distributing Christmas gifts is based on a deep penetration into child psychology: before handing a gift, children should be scared. This is the purpose of the dressing trick. Little scoundrels must first be taught a lesson so that they understand that nothing in the world is given for nothing. And they remember it for the rest of their lives.

At Christmas, Swedes drink mulled wine or grog. The Swedish version of this drink is called “glogg”. The name imitates the sound made when swallowing. Some prefer a reinforced version of the grog, the hidden energy of which is able to put into orbit a spacecraft.

The recipe for this drink is this. Take four bottles of cheap red wine, pour a couple of bottles of pure alcohol into this amount, add lemon and orange peel, sugar, cinnamon, cloves, raisins and almonds, turn off the lights and burn the whole mixture. Burning grog poured ladle on glasses, and with a known skill, this can be done without spilling liquid fire on the lap of guests.